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Fast Women QUOTES

Fast Women QUOTES

1 " Gabe turned his head to look up at her. The moon came through the skylight and backlit Chloe's short blonde curls, making her look angelically lovely. Too bad she was insane. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

2 " Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

3 " I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

4 " ...If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard... "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

5 " I have to see him and Trevor Ogilvie on Monday. Both senior partners at once."
"Good for you. I hope Jack's in trouble up to his neck."
"They're being blackmailed."
"Blackmail?" Riley said, his voice full of disbelief. "Jack? There's stuff out there that's even worse than the stuff everybody knows about him? "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

6 " She was setting out china cups in their saucers, her long pale hands almost the same color as the cream china. "How do you take yours?"
"Four creams, two sugars," Riley said, still mesmerized by her.
She stopped with a small waxed carton in her hand.
"Really?"
"He's very young," Gabe said. "I take mine black."
"He's very boring," Riley said. "Is that real cream? "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

7 " What about the check?" Suze said.
"Pay it," he called back. "This is your party."
"I don't like him," Suze said to Margie.
Margie slid out of the booth. "Think of him as a growth experience."
"Oh, good, I've been wanting one of those," Suze said and tossed a twenty on the table. It was too much, but she was in a hurry to steal a dog. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

8 " He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would."
"Marlene?" Nell said.
"I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

9 " Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women?"
"No," Riley said. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

10 " I swear," Nell said, walking faster, "you're looking at a life of hamburger and no yelling." She held the dachshund closer, and it sighed this time and put its head on her arm, and she stopped to look down into
its eyes. "Hello," she said, and SugarPie stared back, pathetic and wide-eyed in the glow from the streetlight, her eyelashes fluttering like a Southern belle confronted by a Yankee. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women

11 " The thing about love is, you don’t get to choose,” Suze said.

“You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going ‘nyah, nyah, gotcha,’ and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. "

― Jennifer Crusie , Fast Women